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Looking for union labels
For all the fuss over Al and Tip- per Gore, there are several other VIP unions that have left you wondering, “So what’s their sta- tus again?” An update:
Dennis and Victoria Hopper:
The actor filed for divorce from his estranged fifth wife in Janu- ary, but he died Saturday of can- cer before it went through. Their prenup was set to give her a big payout if they were still together at the end — and in April, she got a court order to stay on his prop- erty pending the divorce. His family’s lawyers and hers are girding for a fight.
Gary Coleman and Shannon
Price: She was with the former child star when he fell at his Utah home last week and later died — but lawyers later revealed they divorced two years ago. Hmm. The hospital said Cole- man had signed papers granting her power to make medical deci- sions for him, including the choice to take him off life sup- port.
Spencer and Heidi Pratt: The
veteran reality-TV villains have split, or something. At least she’s moved out, she’s telling the tabs. Oh, and she’s got a new reality show in the works, so presum- ably they needed a plotline.
Strasburg already has a
No. 1 fan
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August. The couple had dated 18 months before he proposed last fall. The engagement seemed sudden to some insiders — but not Rachel’s mom. “I wasn’t surprised at all,” Jenny Lackey told us. “They’re great together.” The couple wed Jan. 9 at a small outdoor ceremony at South Coast Winery near San Diego, the warmest spot in the United States that day. She wore a strapless white lace gown; her bridesmaids wore fuchsia. Then the newlyweds headed to Hawaii for their honeymoon. The groom was allowed to skip all the Nationals offseason publicity programs but spent every other day working on his arm. Since then, Strasburg has been pitching in the minor leagues while Rachel adjusts to life as a player’s wife: living in temporary housing, attending almost every game, following the team bus on road trips with the other wives. “She’s handling it great,” said her mom. “She’s doing really well.” “Normal couple, down to earth,”
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Shannon Price, Gary Coleman.
HEY, ISN’T THAT . . . ?
Jill Biden lunching with a
lively group of female friends Thursday on the rooftop of the W Hotel in what seemed to be an early celebration — she turns 59 on Saturday. Lots of Bliss Spa bags around the table. The veep’s wife had the watermelon and goat cheese salad.
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Already a winning team: “She’s my best friend,” Stephen Strasburg says of his wife, Rachel. “I can’t imagine her not being here.”
Syracuse Chiefs third baseman Chase Lambin told the city’s Post-Standard newspaper. That normalcy will be tested next week when every camera in sports focuses on Stephen Strasburg. The Lackeys, who live outside San Diego, are making their first trip to D.C. for their son-in-law’s debut, and will see where the couple has decided to live — a carefully guarded secret for security reasons. After the game, they’ll probably skip the fancy restaurants and head home for playtime with Bentley, the Strasburgs’ new Yorkie. “They love their little dog,” said Jenny Lackey. “He’s hilarious.”
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Laura Ling, top, and Euna Lee upon their return to the United States in August.
LOVE, ETC.
Born: A daughter to Current
TV journalist Laura Ling, 33, and her husband, Iain Clayton, 43, Wednesday in Burbank, Calif., — 10 months after she and
colleague Euna Lee were
released from the North Korean jail where they had spent five months for crossing the border from China. Ling told People that she and Clayton decided to name the baby after the two people instrumental in winning Ling and Lee’s release: sister Lisa Ling and Bill Clinton. So . . . LisaBill?
No: Li Jefferson Clayton.
FRIDAY, JUNE 4, 2010
“Those morons don’t know what they’re doing.”
resident deep-sea-robotics expert, on the Gulf oil-spill crisis, at a Wall Street Journal conference in L.A. on Wednesday night. The director of “Titanic” and “The Abyss” told the audience that he joined a meeting of experts this week through the auspices of the EPA but that no one from the agency attended; and that BP rebuffed his offer of help: “They basically said, ‘We’ve got this.’ ”
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Chefs Move to Schools will serve up taste and nutrition
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launch a national adopt-a-school pro- gram. Dubbed Chefs Move to Schools, the initiative will draw both the brightest stars of the culinary universe — Rachael Ray, Tom Colicchio and Cat Cora — and the unknown soldiers who staff corpo- rate kitchens, food banks and culinary schools. Their mission won’t be easy. The lack of funding (the federal government allo- cates $2.68 cents per child per lunch) and equipment (many schools don’t have kitchens) stand in the way of freshly made salads or even hand-cut french fries.
At the very least, the combination of
chefs and reality-style makeovers is smart marketing by the White House. But if the nearly 1,000 chefs who have signed on to the program catch the same fever as their Washington counterparts, the hope is that the program could spark a real “Food Revolution,” Jamie Oliver- style. A thousand forks of light, if you will.
Witness the excitement at Murch El- ementary, the school that chef Gray adopted in January. His first cooking les- son and lecture were scheduled for a Sunday — after a major snowstorm. And yet about 250 parents and students ar- rived at the school auditorium in North- west Washington. Gray, who will talk at the White House event about his experi- ences, stood on the stage and showed them how to whip up a cucumber and bread salad and a smoothie with blood orange and beet juices. “The kids were slugging this stuff
back,” he recalls. “Parents kept saying they’d never seen kids do that.” Mendelsohn, who made his name as a runner-up on the reality TV show “Top Chef,” is taking a similar tack at the KIPP Academy in Southeast Washington. The chef was attracted to the charter school, he says, because it “has done the same thing with education as we want to do with food: to reinvent it.” He has taught several Saturday cook- ing classes that students attend with their parents. (At one lesson, each child was given a tomato and cucumber to
lishment in anything that has to do with food.” Perhaps. But chefs’ raging egos may not be well-suited to the moribund ways of Washington or the regulation-bound world of school food. “Chefs are accustomed to being in
charge. But you can’t just walk in and overhaul someone’s kitchen,” notes Ellie Krieger, the host of the Food Network show “Healthy Appetite.” “A little bit of anger gets you motivated. But you have to channel it in a positive way and work as part of a team.” For Krieger, who is attending the
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WHERE CUISINE REIGNS SUPREME: White House assistant chef Sam Kass, center, is leading the project. His crusade for better school lunches has nearly 1,000 chefs sharpening their knives to help, including Rachael Ray and Tom Colicchio.
slice. The students with the best knife skills paraded their work around the caf- eteria.) On Monday, he will plant a roof- top garden for the school. Since the launch of Let’s Move!, many food service providers have already be- gun to improve their offerings. In Chica- go, for example, Chartwells, the same vendor that works in D.C. public schools, has tightened its nutrition standards and promised to amp up the number of leafy green vegetables and whole grains served.
But Armstrong wants more dramatic
change, faster. Over the past several months, he has visited nearby school food production facilities, where he says he was appalled to discover that reheat- ing processed food is considered “cook- ing.” He has recruited a board of direc- tors and philanthropists who have agreed to raise money for the project. The plan is to provide food for one local school, then expand across the city. Jaleo’s Andrés has taken his case to the
“Chefs have to have a bigger role in the school lunch program. They have to have a bigger voice in the political establishment.”
— José Andrés
DOONESBURY FLASHBACKS by Garry Trudeau
Hill. He has hosted a series of off-the- record dinners for journalists and pol- icymakers to drum up interest — they are dubbed the Brillat-Savarin dinners in honor of the French chef who famously said, “Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you who you are.” The chef has worked closely with sympathetic lawmakers in- cluding Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), among others.
Andrés says chefs need to lobby for dollars like everybody else. President Obama requested $10 billion for child- hood nutrition programs in his 2010 budget. The Senate has allocated less than half that amount. “We have to be more outspoken about how we feed our children,” Andrés says. “Chefs have to have a bigger role in the school lunch program. They have to have a bigger voice in the political estab-
Chefs Move event, that meant forming a “wellness committee” and establishing vegetable tastings for students at her daughter’s public school in Manhattan. Ann Cooper, the nutrition director of the Boulder Valley school district in Colo- rado who calls herself the “Renegade Lunch Lady,” says she believes chefs can have the most impact by educating and inspiring children to eat healthful food. “We’ve grown a generation of children who think chicken nugget is a food group,” she says. “I think the thing that makes the most sense for chefs who know nothing about school food, which is most of them, is to use our newfound celebrity status to get kids to think about food, taste food, cherish food in the way that we do.” As for larger political aims? “Maybe the answer is that in addition to adopt- ing a school, we should all adopt a con- gressperson,” Cooper says. Maybe all we really need to do is take them to a school and show them what we feed our kids.”
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